Non-religious types, do you do Easter?

[Sarahfeena]

I mean the secular parts...Easter baskets, coloring eggs, ham dinner, etc. If so, which parts? Describe a typical Easter for you.

[Zuul]

Well, I don't have kids so I just cook a ham. My sister is religious and does have kids, so she does the whole shebang. My mother isn't religious and when I was a kid we had:

Easter baskets
Coloring eggs
Ham dinner
Easter egg hunt
The traditional Easter walk (probably to burn off all that sugar)

[artifex]

OCS is sitting by me (driving) and says that even if he weren't living with and engaged to a Jew, Easter would be a complete non-starter for him, unless he were with his kids and they were expecting eggs and candy. As for me, I find it one of Christianity's most amusing bastardizations.

[Rube E. Tewesday]

Well, I guess today's a fairly typical Easter for us. Son did an Easter candy hunt (first year of total non-belief in Easter bunny, so a little less exciting. ) My wife cooked a sausage and egg breakfast, instead of sleeping in while son and I went adventuring, which is our ordinary Sunday routine.

Before long we'll be heading to my mother-in-law's for turkey dinner. (Despite the popularity of talking about Easter ham, I can't think of anyone I've known, religious or not, who made ham the centre of Easter dinner, but I've not given it a lot of thought)

So, I guess our non-religious little family does a fair bit of the trappings, we just don't talk about the raising from the dead stuffl

[The Original An Gadaí]

Yep. We eat a 1st world feast and because we have monday off we can eat and drink til the early hours. Hurrah!

[Orual]

I still get Easter chocolates from my Granny (because she is awesome). Other than that, I don't do anything, mostly because I don't have any family nearby.

[ivan astikov]

I do Easter Eggs. But not all of them at once; that just makes you puke.

[vison]

We do the chocolate bunny bit. No colouring eggs any more. We're going to my sister's for dinner and I expect it will be a turkey AND a ham.

In Australian there's a move afoot to have people eat chocolate bilbies instead of bunnies. The bilby is a native Australian marsupial, a rabbit-like critter.

[ivan astikov]

I thought for a sec you'd made a typo with "chocolate bibles"! Mmmmm, bibles.

[Glazer]

Well Chuck the Easter Puppy hid some brown eggs for me to find. And then we took a walk to the park to read and sniff butts. Tonight I'm having cabbage with smoked turkey necks. In other words a typical Sunday.

[Zuul]

Which one of you was reading?

[Glazer]

I must admit I like a good butt sniff. To bad it gets me slapped so much.

[bontybahr]

Well, I went shopping, caught How to train your dragon, went to the gym and watched some SG-U on TV... no Easter celebration for me but I do enjoy the long weekend

[Glazer]

Welcome bontybahr. Look around ,kick the tires post a little. Glad to see ya.

[What Exit?]

We do. We colored the eggs yesterday and hid them this morning. We did the Bunny Baskets. The extended family gathered at my sisters for a large Easter dinner. We rarely do ham, but did have pork this year. Most years my sister has made lasagna which is fairly common to Italian families at Easter.

[Taumpy]

Not recently. I bought myself some Peeps, though.

[Laughing Lagomorph]

Didn't do anything special today. The kid is with Mrs Lagomorph this weekend, if he was with me I would have made an effort to celebrate. I had lunch yesterday (Sat) with my brother at his in laws South of Boston, that was a nice invite.

(The Yankees just hit back to back home runs with two out off Beckett!)

[Nrblex]

Nope.

[Cluricaun]

We do easter baskets for our nephews because that's just fun to do, and we went to my sister in laws to see the kids and we made.....Italian beef and polish sausage. There were deviled eggs since we babysat them on Friday and my fiancee helped them color eggs, because that's fun too. But if it weren't for them, we'd not have really done anything at all special.

Also: If you eat one of the Paas color tablets it will make your pee funny colors. I just had to know.....

[Queen Tonya]

When my son was young, we colored eggs, decorated the windows with bunny type clings, had an egg hunt that led to a huge basket filled with candy and outside stuff like jump ropes, sidewalk chalk and rollerblades to burn off the sugar buzz. Now that he's older, no eggs, but usually a few things he wants and the requisite chocolate bunny.

The entire family still gets together, this year the weather was so nice I mutinied and we barbecued instead of the ham dinner thing.

[OneCentStamp]

Also: If you eat one of the Paas color tablets it will make your pee funny colors. I just had to know.....

What color did you eat? Did you wash it down with vinegar per the instructions?

[Zuul]

I should not be thinking about eating a color tablet. I should not be thinking about eating a color tablet...

[Laughing Lagomorph]

I should not be thinking about eating a color tablet. I should not be thinking about eating a color tablet...

You're going to do it, aren't you?

[Glazer]

Just don't eat a red one. That'll be way to much red in one place.

[Zuul]

I'm saving a really bright, weird color, in the hopes I have to take a urine test someday. That'll be awesome.

LOOK THE TAMPON COMMERCIALS ARE RIGHT! PEOPLE DO LEAK BLUE FLUID!

[Cluricaun]

What color did you eat? Did you wash it down with vinegar per the instructions?

I ate blue, and no vinegar, I used Samuel Smith's Nut Brown Ale.

I peed an awesome display of neon green urine. I almost wanted to just piss all over the bathroom so that others could see it.

It, ah, colored some other stuff too, but we'll not get into that. Poop is scary enough on it's own.

[OneCentStamp]

I ate blue, and no vinegar, I used Samuel Smith's Nut Brown Ale.

I peed an awesome display of neon green urine. I almost wanted to just piss all over the bathroom so that others could see it.

It, ah, colored some other stuff too, but we'll not get into that. Poop is scary enough on it's own.

I'm totally going to eat one of those and observe my semen. Might as well put the little soldiers in uniform if I can...

[Zuul]

What color uniform will you pick? And please warn your lady first!

[OneCentStamp]

What color uniform will you pick? And please warn your lady first!

She was reading over my shoulder as I typed, unfortunately. Otherwise I would have chosen green, and feigned surprise.

[Zuul]

Green dyed teeth are no laughing matter.

[OneCentStamp]

That smiley always looks to me as if it's fapping...angrily.